University of Houston Libraries will host a free event featuring topics in data on Thursday, February 14. Faculty, staff, and students (especially grad students) are encouraged to attend. Register

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Love Data @ UH Schedule

Sessions will be held at the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion in the MD Anderson Library.

8:45 – 9:00 a.m.
Registration

9:00 – 9:10
Welcome
Lisa German, Dean of UH Libraries

9:10 – 10:30
Data for All Disciplines
Faculty panel:

• Kathryn Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology 
• Ioannis Pavlidis, Eckhard-Pfeiffer Professor, Department of Computer Science
• Norman Johnson, Professor, Chair of Decision and Information Sciences, Bauer College of Business
• Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering 
• Temple Northup, Associate Professor of Communication, Director of Jack J. Valenti School of Communication

Moderator: Dr. Claude Willan, Director of Digital Research Commons

10:30 – 11:00
The UH Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute
Dr. Andrea Prosperetti, Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute

11:00 – 11:15
Break

11:15 – Noon
Cross – Classified Random Effects Models in Psychology and Education
Dr. David Francis, Director of Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics (TIMES)

Noon – 1:00
Lunch: Pizza

1:00 – 2:00
Connecting Changemakers with Data
Jie Wu, Director of Research Management at Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research

2:00 – 3:00
Collections as Data
Wenli Gao, Data Services Librarian; Anne Washington, Coordinator of Metadata Services; Emily Vinson, Audiovisual Archivist

Love Data @ UH is sponsored by UH Libraries, UH Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute, and TIMES.

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